WHO Director Will Visit Congolese Areas Affected by Ebola

The General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, will visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from November 5 to 9, where several regions suffer the appearance of Ebola.

It is expected that the WHO delegation, also composed of the Deputy Secretary General of the UN Jean-Pierre Lacroix, will meet with the authorities in Kinshasa, the first to respond to the outbreak, and with the UN Office, its staff and its humanitarian partners.

The mission will visit the eastern province of North Kivu, where the focus of the current outbreak of the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus is located.

According to the WHO, until November 1 there were 279 cases of Ebola infection in the DRC, 244 confirmed by laboratory tests, 179 people died as a result of the disease and 81 people were able to recover.

Press reports stressed that this is the worst outbreak of the disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last decade and the second declared in 2018, just eight days after the Minister of Health, Oly Ilunga, indicated the end of the previous epidemic in the northwest of the country.